On Wednesday, August 06, 2014 09:29:53 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 05 August 2014 22:43:42 J. Roeleveld wrote: > > I still remember running seti@home and similar programs in the past. Those > > were large clusters, but with a very badly designed network. > > Was that in the days before BOINC, Joost? Do you think it's any better now? > I run 5 BOINC projects here in the same general area as SETI. They seem to > work all right, except for getting changes in what they call computing > preferences propagated around the projects. > > (Just an aside - I don't want to hijack this interesting thread.)
Yes, I did it for a short period sometime in 1999. It worked alright, I just meant that running it on thousands of personal computers using dial-up to the internet is a "badly designed network" for a cluster. -- Joost
